Lorient Again Battered, "Invasiow Bases'
Smashed in Sustained Attack London, Dec. 29.
'OR the lost 24 hours, by daylight and darkness, the RAF.
has been carrying out a sustained attack on German "invasion bases" on the Fi and Norwegian coasts. Only part of the story of their first full-scale offensive since Christmas had been told before, just after the fourth official communique had been issued, London and other big cities were blacked-out in anticipation of a repetition of Friday night's Nazi attack, but the story was one of success.
The subm: me base at Lorient was the main objective of British bombers last night, it was learned authoritatively, while other planes attacked {ai he Low Countries, ets on the coasts of occup!
France and 'The Air Ministry stated: "rw atigeks were made' today. (Saturday) on Lorient docks by forces of bomber of the Coastal Command. observed and all our aircraft returned satd Lorient, an Important base for German 'U-boats, "was one of the lnvgets attacked" by the LAP. on Friday night, 1€ has now been raided times In alt In previous communiques. the Air Ministry had, revealed that, ay-light on Friday, raids had been carried out on Bxersund and Haugesund and using the night, Bordeaux, Lorient and Lo 'Mauesund Is one of the most westerly point in Norway. ivin approx= mately opposite the Orkney' Islands dnd Is midway between Havaner und Bergen.
Berxen, north of Haugesund, is the terminus of the Oslo-Bergen Failway Hine—used considerably "in recent troop -movements—whieh that beer Dombed twice this month. Egersund 60. miles south of "Haugesund. Router Airmen Dare D Tu Epic of Skies Athens, Dee, 29, yards 10,000 feet high peaks with their plane out of control through joe, the crew of bomber plane, returning from a Faid over Albania, decided to jump, Then they found that the observer's parachute pack had been thrown out and the machine= ner made the same decision; they seconds the scem= ingly doomed plane swooped blindly Nasi Restrictions in Belgium Increase
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